Author/Authors :
Sze، نويسنده , , Dai-Kai and Billone، نويسنده , , Michael C. and Hua، نويسنده , , Thanh Q. and Tillack، نويسنده , , Mark and Najmabadi، نويسنده , , Farrokh and Wang، نويسنده , , Xueren and Malang، نويسنده , , Siegfried and El-Guebaly، نويسنده , , Laila A. and Sviatoslavsky، نويسنده , , Igor N. and Blanchard، نويسنده , , James P. and Crowell، نويسنده , , Jeffrey A. and Khater، نويسنده , , Hesham Y. and Mogahed، نويسنده , , Elsayed A. and Waganer، نويسنده , , Lester M. and Lee، نويسنده , , Dennis and Cole، نويسنده , , Dick، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The ARIES-RS fusion power plant design study is based on reversed-shear (RS) physics with a Li/V (lithium breeder and vanadium structure) blanket. The reversed-shear discharge has been documented in many large tokamak experiments. The plasma in the RS mode has a high beta, low current, and low current drive requirement. Therefore, it is an attractive physics regime for a fusion power plant. The blanket system based on Li/V has high temperature operating capability, good tritium breeding, excellent high heat flux removal capability, long structural life time, low activation, low after heat and good safety characteristics. For these reasons, the ARIES-RS reactor study selected Li/V as the reference blanket. The combination of attractive physics and attractive blanket engineering is expected to result in a superior power plant design. This paper summarizes the power core design of the ARIES-RS power plant study.
